GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ยน/โโ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |